Entries in gail (7)

Monday
Mar082010

UL Week 4 - kicked off the island

This week was ridiculously intense yet pathetic all at once for me. I definitely fell below the yellow line at a gain of 2.8 lbs. WTF. I worked out like a maniac... crazy woman... lunatic... all week. Went to the gym 2x a day in some instances. So pissed.

Not a clue what went wrong there. And if one more person says "oh I'm sure you're just building muscle" I'm going to throw a kettleball at them. Of course I'm building muscle but I'm not exactly hitting up the protein powder.

Thursday's LCW brought on the dreaded "Stairs" routine - aka climb 20 floors of our building.  Here is my building:

FitCorp is on the second floor.  We had to 'run' to the 22nd floor (the last tippy top flippin floor).  I've done this before as part of a class for marine corps or something (OK really it's called BG Sports but seriously).  I couldn't walk for 4 days afterwards so needless to say I was a little scared.  My calves were literally twitching for an hour after LCW. I still have knots in my calves 4 days later - not exactly pleasant!

So after having a mini meltdown after Friday weigh in, I let it go for the most part. I took the day off on Saturday to play with Maverick on his first birthday, more on that later. Got back on the horse yesterday (Sunday) with a five mile run.

Run was an interesting one. Weather was ungodly gorgeous and after a mile I felt great except that I had to pee like a racehorse and apparently I had over dressed and was sweating profusely. God bless fast food restaurants. Where else can you realistically guarantee that you can use a public restroom requiring no human interaction? Don't have to say anything, buy anything just head right in. Thank you BK for saving my bladder and allowing me to continue my run. :)

Anyway, the SPECTACULAR weather this weekend was a huge mood elevator. Spent all day outside yesterday, it was glorious.  Met up with Gail and her bum knee after my run and we got some lunch and walked back to her neck of the woods for some BerryLine, YUM.  Perfect little day :)

Now if I could just be a literal loser this week rather than a figurative loser that would be great!

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Wednesday
Dec092009

ga-ga Oh-la-la

As you already know I am ridiculously overdue on my Lady Gaga post. I did write a fab post then in true Chrome fashion I got an 'Aw Snap' aka Internet Explorer Cannot Display this Page bullcrap. Didn't have it in me to repost until now. So frustrating.

But Gaga... amazing! She is such an amazing performer. Over the top fantastic. She is worth every penny of a sold out Wang Center. A different outfit and routine for every song with no lip syncing. The real deal.

She opened with new song “Dance in the Dark” (omg love this song) and then moved into Just Dance (my anthem), and I was ‘so happy I could die’. ;)

She played all of my favorites:

  • Dance in the Dark
  • Just Dance

[Order gets blurry here]

  • Monster
  • Alejandro
  • Fashion
  • The Fame
  • Love Game
  • Speechless (on Piano)
  • Money Honey 
  • Beautiful Dirty Rich
  • Poker Face
  • Paparazzi

[Encore]

  • Eh, eh
  • Bad Romance

We took some ridiculous pictures I am reluctantly showing to you all, haha.  At one point at the restaurant before we went to the show a girl came up and took my picture to send to her husband?? It’s fine.  Papa-Papa-Paparazzi.

Hands down so amazing. After the show I was ready to kill someone for water.  I finally get to the register at Walgreens with water and Gatorade in hand and went to say thank you and nothing came out, no more voice.  The next day I had this raspy scratchy voice and my vocal chords were definitely mad at me J  All totally worth it.

Here’s video from my camera’s recording of the beginning of her Poker Face performance… Lady Gaga fist pumps. I’m in love.

<3 Lady Gaga and all her and my little monsters!

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Tuesday
Dec012009

so happy I could die...

Tonight is the night!  Lady Gaga concert with little monsters Gail & Sarah among others. OW OWWW!  He's my look for tonight:

I'm sitting here at work wondering if anyone would notice if I drew my lightning bolt on my face a little prematurely.  It is, after all, the 2nd best day of December. :D

To all other little monsters... you'll be in my heart as I'm dancing my Gaga off.  I will try to give you some shot outs during my routine on stage but... Lady G and I have a Bad Romance so she might get a little jealous. :P

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Wednesday
Oct282009

Ga-Ga Ooh La-La

Bad Romance. Lady Gaga's latest hit and I'm in love.  You can listen to it on ladygaga.com! Her new album The Fame Monster comes out Nov 23rd which means I will have exactly one week to learn all the lyrics for her CONCERT at the Wang Center Dec 1st. Yep. Get jealous.

Gail woke up in the wee hours of Saturday morning (10am) to order the tickets. After her page took 35 minutes to load (talk about site performance issues) she got us some siiiick seats. Thanks for your hard work Gail!

Sarah will be joining us for the madness (insanity, hot mess, sh*tshow) that is a Lady Gaga concert. Can't wait! Hope Wang Center doesn't discriminate on sunglasses and sparkles oww owww.

Totally should have been Lady Gaga for halloween but will just dress up as her for the concert instead! :D Anyone else going?

I bet I know what most of you are up to tonight. GAME ONE WORLD SERIES Phils vs Yanks.  GO PHILS! We're going home this weekend, too!  Can't wait!

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Wednesday
Jul152009

kid cudi <3's lady gaga, too

I have so many ailments today but they are all reminders of good things. Bum knee means I've been running lots. Sore torso means I actually did something in Pilates class yesterday. Exhaustion and the overwhelming urge to eat a sausage egg and cheese means I had a great time last night at the Kid Cudi & Asher Roth concert!

With all this I wonder what today's Cardio Ball class (so hard) will bring. Most likely my resuscitation by paramedics and annoyed fit people that just wanted to take the class. Or even more likely I'll lay like a dead fish on the mat. Either scenario I'll still be reaching deep, haha.

Anyway, last night was pretty kick ass. Gail had an extra ticket and brought me. So here is where we give a big o-m-g shout out to Gail! Whoop! Thanks girl!

Kid Cudi has talent and he spun a Lady Gaga beat. So you've guessed it... I tried to rush the stage and got in another fight. KIDDINGGGG! Haha that would have been fun. Memories.

Asher Roth was good, too. I only know his i love college song which eerily describes being 21 with my girls at 218 Hemenway. I wish we taped it... for sure. Anyway I got to dance like a white girl to hip hop and well I loved every minute of it. ;)

Maybe the dancing is actually why I'm sore and have a bum knee. Totally worth it.

Tonight I have dinner with Sarah & Liz from work and I'm so pumped for cheese, wine and homemade risotto. Just have to get through work. :P

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